BucUcmdda.'] lv. hamamelidbj;. (0. B, Clarke.) 429 



7. BUCK.X.ANDXA, Sr. 



A tree attaining 80 ft. iigh. Leaves alternate, cordate-ovate, acuminate, 

 entire, long-petioled ; stipules solitary or in pairs, large, oblong, coriaceous, 

 deciduous. Inflorescence of 2-6-peduncled heads, at first enclosed between a 

 pair of stipules ; flowers adnate by their calyces, about 8 in a head, polygamous. 

 Cal^x-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb 6-lobed. Petals in the g flower linear- 

 spathulate, fleshy, variable in number ; in the $ rudimentary. Stamens 10-14 

 (m the $ r one) ; filaments long. Owary half-inferior, 2-celled ; styles 2, separate, 

 soon divaricate ; ovules in each cell 6 in two rows. Capsule nearly superior, 

 woody, subglobose, endocarp homy, showing a tendency to separate from the 

 exocarp. Seeds in each cell 6, oblong, trigonous; the upper wingless solid, 

 without any embryo, the lower one in each cell winged fertile. 



1. B. populnea, Sr. in Wall. Cat. 7414; ffrjf. in Asiat. Res. xix. 96, 

 with two plates. B. populifolia, S. f. 8f T.im, Joum. lAnn. Soc. ii. 86 ; Kurs 

 Forest Fl. Brit. Bwrma, i. 445. Liquidambar triouspis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. i. 1097 and SuppL 346, toith afigwe. 



Tempbkate Hihalata, from Nepal to Bhotan, alt. 5000-8000 ft., common. 

 Khasia Mts., alt. 4000-6000 ft., common. BtntMAF, Griffith, Kwrz. — ^Distbib. Java, 

 Sumatra. 



Branches and adult leaves glabrous. Leaves 3-8 in. with a. cartilaginous edge, 

 quite entire or 3-cuspidate especially in young plants, petiole 1-6 in. glabrous or 

 when young densely silky with brown hairs. Feduncles (at least at first) densely 

 brown silky; as are the young ovaries. — The Malayan Liguidamba/r tHcuspis does 

 not differ in the smallest point from Himalayan specimens some of which have tri- 

 onspidate leaves and sericeous petioles. Cf. Kwz in Flora, 1871, p. 289. 



8. A.1.T11XGJA., Nbronka. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate or oblong, glandular-serrate, per- 

 sistent ; stipules deciduous or persistent. Flowers in dense heads ; heads wrapped 

 by a large bract, males racemose, females solitary. Maib heads a mass of sta- 

 mens with very short filaments, probably representing numerous achlamydeous 

 flowers. Anthers obverse-pyramidal, the valves when young turned in till they 

 reach the connective so that the young stamen is pseudo-4K;eIIed ; dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Eemaie heads of 12-20 flowers; calyces confluent, without 

 limb. Petals (some rudimentary stamens have been taien for petals). Ovary 

 |-inferior, 2-ceUed ; styles 2, separate, deciduous ; ovules numerous, azile. 

 JWtJi-head globose, harsh. Seeds numerous; lowest 1-2 of each cell winged. 

 fertile, the upper without wing or embryo. — Disteib. Species 2 ; extending 

 from East Bengal to China and Malaya. 



1. A, excels a, iVororaAa in Verh. Bat. Oenootsch v. 41, ex Benth. §• 

 Sook. f. Gen. PI. i. pt. -ii. 669 ; leaves eUiptic-lanceolate acuminate, petiole 

 1-lJ in. Kurz Forest Fl. Brit. Biurma, i. 446. Sedgwickia ceradfolia, Orif. 

 in Asiat. Res. xix. 99, tiiith two plates. Liquidambar Altingia, Blume Fl. 

 Jav. fasc. xvii. 8, vnth afigwe ; H.f.^T.im, Jowm. lArm. Soc. ii. 86 ; Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 836. L, Altingian?., Blume Bijd. 627. 



